Scientists Speed up Genome Evolution for Yeast Used in Bread, Beer Production

Scientists have created a new way of speeding up the genome evolution of baker's yeast,Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the same yeast we use for bread and beer production. Scientists have created this to develop a synthetic yeast strain that can be transformed on demand, making it particularly attractive for industrial biotechnology applications, such as themass productionof advanced medicines to treat illnesses such as Malaria and Tuberculosis.